A mum who let her 12-year-old son do the grocery shopping was taken aback to see what he came home with.
Kelly Miller Richards said her son, Vinnie, is a budding young chef. She set him the challenge of buying the ingredients for, and making, five evening meals for the family. He had a budget of £50 to spend at Asda, but came back with quite a bit of change.
Sharing Vinnie's success in a Facebook group for families trying to eat on a budget, Kelly, from County Durham, said: "So I gave my son Vinnie a challenge, I told him to do a shop and make five meals out of £50 for five of us... and he has pulled it off on only £36.14. (He gets to keep the change).
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"He added fruit, water and milk in as well. He also cooked his first meal tonight was lovely.
"The meals are spag bol with crusty bread, chicken korma with rice, a cooked breakfast, crispy chicken wraps with salad and chips, and a spaghetti carbonara. He wants to be a chef when he's older, I am so proud of him twelve years old and doing this". [sic]
Kelly's post has been liked thousands of times, with hundreds of positive comments. One mum said: "I love this idea, I think I might challenge my 14-year-old to do this".
Another said: "Please could I borrow him! He's better than my husband!", and a third said: "Can I just say this is absolutely brilliant I did similar with my son who wanted to be a chef! His 23 now and did make it as a pro chef".
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